Madame Bernier, I found myself in the position to make precisely that argument some time ago when I had the privilege of being in government. At the time the Americans were.... I don't want to say they were fixated on their own paranoia, but it seemed that they were unwilling to listen to anything. I'm not sure that has abated today, as the industry of fear and paranoia has become a profitable exercise.
But I look at the maps of flight patterns by Canadian and foreign airlines as they try to enter the profitable market of the Great Lakes Basin. Forget about other places, but it still applies to them too. The vast majority of them do not fly up to the North Pole and then come down and take advantage of the rotation and the shape of the Earth. Some of them actually have to go through the northeastern United States or come straight down to the United States. Otherwise, they can't make a go of their travel.
The United States is determined to utilize this as, I guess, the 21st century gatekeeper role that we might have applied at another time, when you had a river crossing, you put up a fort, and you exacted tariffs, and now...? Now this--the concept of human rights and privacy rights from an American homeland security perspective doesn't trump the $80 billion business on an annual basis that they want to nurture.